What's your favorite state/territory flag?

[Kyriakos]

It's the Spartan shield emblem, the first letter of Λακεδαίμονα (Lacedaemon)

 

[Zardnaar]

It's the Spartan shield emblem, the first letter of Λακεδαίμονα (Lacedaemon)

I know.

 

[warpus]

However, outside of Maryland it's polarizing; it's either distinctive and cool or gaudy and ugly.

Clearly whoever does not like this flag has never seen a flag before or is just jealous. I mean, most other state flags are just boring, but this one is just a bit cool.

 

[Zardnaar]

My provincial flag is crap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Otago

 

[onejayhawk]

I always liked that Ohio doesn't have a state flag. The shape is technically known as a burgee.

 

[warpus]

Why dont they have a state flag? What flags do they fly in front of their capitol building, just the American flag? Do other states also not have flags?

This is the most I've been interested in America in a while. But I'm learning a lot so keep it coming. No wonder I'm subbed to /r/vexillology

 

[abradley]

The Ohio coast of Lake Erie

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Why dont they have a state flag? What flags do they fly in front of their capitol building, just the American flag? Do other states also not have flags?

This is the most I've been interested in America in a while. But I'm learning a lot so keep it coming. No wonder I'm subbed to /r/vexillology

They have the odd shaped thing they use as a flag.

Burgee is a new word though so that's cool.

 

[Zkribbler]

Here are the flags: https://statesymbolsusa.org/categories/state-flag

New Mexico & Ohio.

The rest are terrible.

 

[Zardnaar]

Alabama is ok, reminds me of Burgundy flag.

 

[The_J]

But they just stole the old Irish flag. That's just a sign of non-creativity.

Did someone not recently (okay, within the last year) post a video where it was explained what makes a good flag?
Because most of the US flags don't (too complicated designs).
I like Tennesee, South Carolina and Flordia, they seem nice. I also like Lipetsk Oblast.

For Germany:

Spoiler because I am not sure how this scales on the screens :

The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has a crazy cow on its flag, it doesn't get better .

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm very fond of the California state flag.

 

[warpus]

They have the odd shaped thing they use as a flag.

Burgee is a new word though so that's cool.

Oh, I didn't read closely enough.

Whoever says that isn't a flag is wrong.

"No, we don't have a flag, no. Wait till you see what we've got. Are you ready for this? You can pull it up a pole and it will wave in the wind. It's made out of a sort of material so you can wash it whenever you want, or roll it up. Very convenient. So much better than a flag"

 

[Kyriakos]

Guns and weapons also don't like. Not to many stars or stripes either.

 

[Phrossack]

It's not a state, but St. Louis has an excellent flag:

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It's not a state, but St. Louis has an excellent flag:

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I never noticed the city's flag the entire time I lived near it...

 

[warpus]

Here's the Łódzkie voivodeship flag, my favourite Polish voivodeship flag.

(A voivodeship is like a state or province but all Polish like)

I also quite like the lower silesian voivodeship flag, it's the voivodeship where I was born. Voivodeship

We were drunk when we designed it so it's vertical

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Oh, I didn't read closely enough.

Whoever says that isn't a flag is wrong.

"No, we don't have a flag, no. Wait till you see what we've got. Are you ready for this? You can pull it up a pole and it will wave in the wind. It's made out of a sort of material so you can wash it whenever you want, or roll it up. Very convenient. So much better than a flag"

I agree. It is Ohio though, and they have a lot of feelings of inadequacy they have to work past so if they wanna say "we don't have just an old rectangular flag, we have a burgee" I'm inclined to just let them.

 

[warpus]

I've heard that Ohio has a bit of a clean drinking water crisis. So maybe it's just something in their water.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I've heard that Ohio has a bit of a clean drinking water crisis. So maybe it's just something in their water.

It was just a regular rectangular flag before they washed it.